Chronic disease like -

> Obesity → is a DIETARY issue
> BP → is a DIETARY issue
> Hypertension → is a DIETARY issue
> Certain cancers → are a DIETARY issue
> Heart Disease → is a DIETARY issue

Drugs (chemicals) & procedures CAN'T

You need the ideal combination of your:

1. Body
2. Mind
3. Energy and
4. Emotions

Once they are aligned - Whatever you wish to do can be done.

How to bring health in control?

I would re-do the following:

1. Track what I am eating. Helps understand what's & how much is going in.

2. Have lots if water. It will get rid of lots of waste. 60 per cent of body is water.

3. Fix rest and sleep.

First get your basics

I felt huge changes in my health condition, with every passing 4 decades (46+) of my life.

In each of them-
Suitable adjustments need to be made regarding:
> food
> exercise
> mindset

Inputs (Foods, Exercise, & Mindset) of the 20s don’t suit you in the 40s.

The mind keeps on thinking about work even when we are back home.

Instead of relaxing, the non-stop chatter keeps going on and on.

After some time - stress & headaches pop up from nowhere.

Biochemically, it leads to the activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA)

Organic food
Organic body
Organic mind
Organic soul

Shout out to: Health Happiness 40s. Wisdom for Men & Women

Catch 22:

To muck work → STRESS
No Work → STRESS

To much Money → Stress
No Money → Stress

To much love → Tension
No Love → Tension

Good Boss → Stress
Bad boss → Double the STRESS counter

END RESULT: Stress Muscle Tension

Either way, you can’t escape.

Chronic disease can nail you down, that is what one of my executive friends told me.

What he meant was -

Chronic disease can be:
> Physical Burden (actual pain)
> Financial Burden (monetary costs)
> Mental Burden (mental & relationship issues surrounding illness)

Depending on

Type 2 Diabetes means:

- ongoing treatment
- increasing complications
- lifetime dependence on glucose-lowering medications

The cost of T2D is approximately $9600 per year

If you are going to live for the next 25 years, then it comes to an additional USD 240,000 in healthcare

Lifestyle Medicine, LM is:

> Whole-food, plant-predominant eating pattern
> Regular physical activity,
> Restorative sleep,
> Stress management,
> Avoidance of risky substances, and
> Positive social connection

Full use of evidence-based lifestyle therapeutic intervention

6 habits that help all my T2 diabetes patients cut their medications

This thread is not medical advice; These are my observations and general guidance.

Positive effects of plant-based dietary interventions, I find are:

> reducing weights
> better glucose levels
> controlled insulin
> lower plasma lipids and inflammatory markers

Giving you 'Better control of your Health'

Lifestyle Medicine starts with:

- green juice fast
- followed by calorie restrictions,
- reducing red meat, and
- changing from full to lower-fat dairy

What do you say?

Health progression after diagnosis of T2D:

under medicine:
→ ongoing treatment
→ increasing complications
→ lifetime dependence on glucose-lowering medications.

Under Lifestyle Medicine:
→ dietary changes (to plant-based foods)
→ simplification - walk, sun & water
→ feel

Like diabetes, many chronic conditions can be prevented, treated & improved, or even reversed through lifestyle modifications

I included → whole food, fruits, veggies (plant-based diet

I did → fasting & meditation daily

Took care of → sleep, energy & exercise

14 days and I

Dominos Med Cheese → $15
McDonald's Big Mac → $4
Cookies & choc chips → $5
And the junk food costs build on…. mindlessly

First, spend on food.

Later on the costly treatment.
People with diagnosed type 2 diabetes spend on an average $16,750 per year in medical expenditures.